Damon Linker
Special guest
Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a consulting editor at the University of Pennsylvania Press, a former contributing editor at The New Republic, and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.
Damon Linker has been a guest on 108 episodes.
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FDR Redux?
April 30th, 2021 | 1 hr 5 mins
american society, class, first 100 days, president biden, race, speech, spending
E.J. Dionne helps the panel unpack Biden's first 100 days, plus, racial and class messaging.
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Reading the Riot Act
April 23rd, 2021 | 1 hr 8 mins
anti-riot laws, democrats, derek chauvin, george floyd, gop, libel, minnesota, riots, slander
Eugene Volokh (The Volokh Conspiracy) joins to discuss the anti-riot laws in several states, whether libel law should be upended, and the Chauvin verdict.
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Don’t Pack the Court
April 16th, 2021 | 1 hr 5 mins
afghanistan, court packing, police violence, president biden, scotus
AEI’s Norm Ornstein joins to discuss police violence, court packing, and Afghanistan.
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Manchin's Ultimatum
April 9th, 2021 | 1 hr 3 mins
boycott culture, china, election law, filibuster, fundraising, georgia, gop, h.r. 1, human rights, joe manchin, marjorie taylor greene, mlb, olympics, politics, sb 202, senate
On this week’s Beg to Differ, Sarah Longwell sits in for Mona Charen, and discusses with the panel the future of the filibuster, GOP fundraising tactics and their new embrace of boycott culture, H.R. 1 and election law, and China and the Olympics.
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Will Biden Bucks Defeat Culture Wars?
April 2nd, 2021 | 1 hr 3 mins
church membership, gop, infrastructure, president biden, spending, working class
Bret Stephens joins to consider the latest multi-trillion dollar spending bill, the GOP workers' party strategy, and the decline in church membership.
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Report Card
March 26th, 2021 | 1 hr 37 secs
china, economics, new deal, pandemic, president biden
George F. Will joins to discuss lessons of the pandemic, whether Biden is creating a new New Deal, and how to handle China.
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Build Biden Better
March 19th, 2021 | 1 hr 9 mins
border policies, child allowance, covid-19, filibuster, immigration, joe biden, stimulus, taxes
The Niskanen Center's Samuel Hammond joins to discuss improving Biden's child allowance and border policies. Plus: eliminate the filibuster?
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Is There a Trapdoor in the Recovery Plan?
March 12th, 2021 | 1 hr 9 mins
border, budget, covid-19, debt, deficit, elections, immigration, inflation, politics, recovery plan, spending, working class
AEI's Desmond Lachman analyzes the inflation risk in our gargantuan spending and loose money policies. The panel then considers the border crisis and the GOP's outreach to the working class.
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2020 Warnings for Democrats
March 5th, 2021 | 1 hr 4 mins
democrats, elections, foreign policy, hr1, iran, middle east, republicans, voting laws
AEI’s Kori Schake joins to discuss Biden’s Iran policy, non-white voters’ move right, and whether HR1 can solve the Democratic party’s geography problem.
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Is the Stimulus a Clunker?
February 26th, 2021 | 58 mins 39 secs
budget, europe, insurrection, january 6, joe biden, stimulus
Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget offers her insights. The group also discusses prospects for a Jan 6 commission, and Europe's response to Biden.
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Powerless Texas
February 19th, 2021 | 1 hr 6 mins
gop, ice, mcconnell, rush limbaugh, ted cruz, texas, trump
Slate's Will Saletan returns to consider the McConnell/Trump GOP, Texas's woes, and Limbaugh's legacy.
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Convict Him
February 12th, 2021 | 1 hr 1 min
cancel culture, covid, democrats, don mcneill, impeachment, new york times, relief, romney, trump
Jay Nordlinger joins to discuss the impeachment trial, the Romney plan for families, and the firing of Don McNeill from the NYTimes.